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Games You Will Never Play
Handheld Video Games You Will Never Play
How many video games have you played during your life? Do you think games are a form of art that should be preserved? What if we told you that there are thousands of interesting games you'll never play, all of which could be lost forever? It's true, there are many cancelled titles that are often lost to video game history. While video games may not be largely considered to be on par with paintings and statues, they are still art on their own, just like books, movies, and music, and like other works of art, video games have their own lost works. Games that were cancelled, never released, and often not even known by the general public. Unfortunately, there is no proper museum dedicated to saving them.
In 2016 45+ writers and editors from the Unseen64 collective published a physical crowdsourced book to educate the gaming world on the history of video games as an ephemeral art form. There's plenty of examples of what gaming history is losing every day. Now we are re-publishing the whole book into short eBooks - divided into chapters - so even more people could be able to read this interesting collection of forgotten stories, interviews, games and concepts. In this Summer Story Bundle you'll learn more about cancelled handheld video games planned for Game Boy, Virtual Boy, Game.com, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP.
Hopefully, by reading this book, more gamers, developers, youtubers, gaming journalists and historians can look back at what could have been and as a result raise awareness on the preservation of lost games: to see the hidden stories that played a part in leading gaming culture to where it is now.
In 2016 45+ writers and editors from the Unseen64 collective published a physical crowdsourced book to educate the gaming world on the history of video games as an ephemeral art form. There's plenty of examples of what gaming history is losing every day. Now we are re-publishing the whole book into short eBooks - divided into chapters - so even more people could be able to read this interesting collection of forgotten stories, interviews, games and concepts. In this Summer Story Bundle you'll learn more about cancelled handheld video games planned for Game Boy, Virtual Boy, Game.com, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP.
Hopefully, by reading this book, more gamers, developers, youtubers, gaming journalists and historians can look back at what could have been and as a result raise awareness on the preservation of lost games: to see the hidden stories that played a part in leading gaming culture to where it is now.
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12 books2 followersUnseen 64 is an archive with articles, screens and videos for cancelled, beta & unseen videogames. Every change & cut creates a different gaming experience; we would like to save some documents of this evolution for curiosity, historic and artistic preservation.
We are a collective of gamers from all around the world.
We are a collective of gamers from all around the world.
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August 4, 2019
a collection of articles about games for handheld devices that were canceled. A fun read, and well researched. My only complaint was that 15% of the entire book was author bios. I know this is a labor of love, but that's a lot of real estate focusing on everyone's backstory. Just saying.
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